“You pleasing Dreams of Love and sweet delight,” from Tyrannick Love

YOU pleasing Dreams of Love and sweet delight,

Appear before this slumbring Virgins sight:

Soft visions set her free

From mournful piety.

Let her sad thoughts from Heav’n retire;

And let the Melancholy Love

Of those remoter joys above

Give place to your more sprightly fire.

Let purling streams be in her fancy seen;

And flowry Meads, and Vales of chearful green:

And in the midst of deathless Groves

Soft smiling wishes ly,

And smiling hopes fast by,

And just beyond ’em ever Laughing Loves.